The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which disappeared in a storm on Nov. 10, 1975, was built in River Rouge, where a ceremony today will commemorate the anniversary of its loss. A crew of 29 went down with the ship. / File photo
BY ELISHA ANDERSON
DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Services are planned around Michigan today to remember the 29 lives lost when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior 36 years ago.
• Family members, the last living person to see the ship on radar before it disappeared during a storm in 1975 and workers who helped design and build the 729-foot Fitzgerald will participate in a ceremony 6-8 p.m. in River Rouge, organizer Roscoe Clark said.
The ship was built in River Rouge in the 1950s.
Roy Anderson, 88, of Marquette saw the ship on the radar while on the Arthur M. Anderson vessel. He said he thinks all through the year about the 29 men who died and plans to participate in the service, held at Belanger Park, by telephone today.
A bell will ring 29 times during the service in honor of each man.
• The Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle in Detroit will host a remembrance at 6 p.m. It will include a lantern ceremony and assembly of the Lost Mariners honor guard.
The ceremony also will observe the 150th anniversary of the loss of the Key Stone State, which sank with its crew in Lake Huron on Nov. 10, 1861.
• The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point will have a service at 7 p.m.
The museum is about 35 miles northwest of Sault Ste. Marie. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank about 17 miles from Whitefish Point.
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BY ELISHA ANDERSON
DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Services are planned around Michigan today to remember the 29 lives lost when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior 36 years ago.
• Family members, the last living person to see the ship on radar before it disappeared during a storm in 1975 and workers who helped design and build the 729-foot Fitzgerald will participate in a ceremony 6-8 p.m. in River Rouge, organizer Roscoe Clark said.
The ship was built in River Rouge in the 1950s.
Roy Anderson, 88, of Marquette saw the ship on the radar while on the Arthur M. Anderson vessel. He said he thinks all through the year about the 29 men who died and plans to participate in the service, held at Belanger Park, by telephone today.
A bell will ring 29 times during the service in honor of each man.
• The Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle in Detroit will host a remembrance at 6 p.m. It will include a lantern ceremony and assembly of the Lost Mariners honor guard.
The ceremony also will observe the 150th anniversary of the loss of the Key Stone State, which sank with its crew in Lake Huron on Nov. 10, 1861.
• The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point will have a service at 7 p.m.
The museum is about 35 miles northwest of Sault Ste. Marie. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank about 17 miles from Whitefish Point.
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